Top Noir Quotes
That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.
Lawrence Kasdan
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
Larry Wachowski
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
Brian De Palma
I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.
Raymond E. Feist
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
Brian De Palma
Raymond E. Feist 
Larry Wachowski 
Gina Gershon 
Lawrence Kasdan 
Brian De Palma 
Marie Windsor 
James Ellroy All Noir Quotes
That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.
Lawrence Kasdan 
60% of people like this quote
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
Larry Wachowski
55% of people like this quote
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
Brian De Palma
54% of people like this quote
I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.
Raymond E. Feist
53% of people like this quote
I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
Brian De Palma
50% of people like this quote
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
Brian De Palma
50% of people like this quote
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.
James Ellroy
49% of people like this quote
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
Marie Windsor
49% of people like this quote